Jewish community history. "...in December 1942, the ancient cemetery, containing nearly 500,000 graves and dating back certainly to the 15th century, was expropriated and thus became a quarry for the entire town." Source [October 2000]

The Nazis destroyed the old cemetery in 1943. Aristotelian University stands on the former cemetery site. The local cemetery at STAVROUPOLIS has a memorial to the 50,000 Greek Jews murdered at Auschwitz. See a picture of the monument and its exact location. See a picture of the cemetery before it was destroyed.

Greek police said that 668 fragments of marble headstones and other pieces from Jewish graves destroyed during the World War II Nazi occupation have been recovered from a plot of land in Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city. The headstones date from the mid-1800's to World War II. The inscriptions includes occupations as well as the name of the deceased. About 60,000 Greek Jews, most of the pre-WWII Jewish population, were killed in the Holocaust. Article. [December 20, 2012]